We pay over $6400 annually in property taxes for our home, and we have a modest home in a modest neighborhood in NW Cook County. I guess we haven't figured out how to play the system like our president's chief adviser and Chief of Staff:
Why doesn't Rahm Emanuel pay property taxes?
According to the Cook County Assessor's website, the Chicago home of four-term Democrat Congressman and new White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, doesn't exist. While the address of 4228 North Hermitage is listed as Emanuel's residence on the IllinoisState Board of Elections' website, there seems to be no public record of Emanuel ever paying property taxes on this home.
The Cook County Assessor's and Cook County Treasurer's online records indicate Emanuel's Chicago neighbors pay between $3,500 and $7,000 annually. However, Illinois Review hasbeen unable to locate any evidence that the former Clinton advisor and investment banker is paying his fair share of CookCounty's notoriously high tax burden. Why wouldn't 4228 North Hermitage property owners Rahm Emanuel and wife Amy Rule pay property taxes? One reason may be because Emanuel and Rule declared their 4228 North Hermitage home as the office location for their personal non-profit foundationcalled the "Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule Charitable Foundation". As the non-profit's headquarters, their home could be exempt from paying property taxes.
The Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule Charitable Trust was formed in 2002, when theChicagolawmaker was first elected. The formerClintonWhite House aide and his wife, Amy Rule,are its only donors. Emanuel was an investment banker after serving in the White House.
The trust reported having $2,900 on hand at the end of 2005 after receiving $34,000 from Emanuel and donating more than $31,000
During the past three years, Emanuel's charity gave nearly $25,000 to the Anshe Emet synagogue and school [a private school that the Rahm/Rule children attend]..., and $15,000 to the foundation run by former president Bill Clinton. It also gave $14,000 to Marwen, aChicagocharity that provides art classes and other educational help to low-income children. Rule is on Marwen's board.
(He doesn't pay any property taxes and he gets income tax write-offs by donating $25000 to the Synagogueand other amounts of money to his Foundation. This allows his kids to attend school tuition-free and allows him to expense a lot of personal expenses. What a racket!
Take all your income and donate it back to yourself via tax exempt orgs where you can spend it on asexpenses to operate your car, pay the electric and water bills, etc.I guess if you are a hypocritical "liberal" democrat who advocates raising taxes on everyone else, this is all permissible.)
Emanuel's 4228 North Hermitage home is one of the largest in the neighborhood, with a side yard that appears to be a vacant lot, making the Emanuels' property the largest portion on the block.
Other North Hermitage homes on Emanuel's block are valued in the $500,000 plus range. According to CookCounty Treasurer's website, the Chicago owners of nearby 118 year old 4222 North Hermitage pay almost $6800 annually. The family at 4224 North Heritage pays $6000 each year in property taxes.
President Obama - himself a connected, Chicago insider who has benefited from questionable land deals - may find it difficult to explain why his very own Chicago-based chief of staff doesn't pay property taxes like the "little guy" he claims to represent. Or perhaps allowing his wealthy friends to avoid taxes is part of Obama's trickle down redistribution economics. It's certainly the kind of "change" we Illinoisans can believe in...since we're quite familiar with it here in the federal indictment land of Daley, Blagojevich, Madigan, Jones, Cellini, Rezko, etc.
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lets just say if one of bush's cabinet did this, it would be front page news for a week.
It might even be legal, but in the liberal mind it is criminal, and in the liberal office it should be a hanging offense when the goal is to fleece the rich and making higher taxes a badge of honor. Its a all smoke and mirrors game where a bunch of business failures, and life long socialists think their greatest chance at "success" is to fleece everyone and make themselves appear to be some sort of savior brigade who does everything for the little man. The can't even pay taxes, send their kids to public schools, go with out body guards, or do anything they promised.
These guys are the best the dems have to offer ?
Can someone remind me why i was supposed to be offended Mrs McCains fmaily is worth 400 million (earned honestly i might add, her father bought a distributorship for 20k after the war, wish my grandpa did that) and she and the whole bunch of them were evil tyrants who we were supposed to hate for being rich?
I really cant handle this, though i do like his idea, i might try to do it here in michigan. Might start my own church also. Get everything i do classified as tax exempt. Everyone should do it and cut off the money train that goes to DC and the state.
It seems like rich and infamous politicians get away with whatever they can.
First it was accepting an apartment rent free.
Now it is not paying property taxes using a shell-game.
Why am I not surprised.
The other question is why don't I see this on ABC, NBC, CBS News?
Because the majority of news companies like the ones you named and a whole lot more... Are owned by one person corporation, They tell you what they want you to know.Also alone with what to wear eat drive and who is winning American Idol...
They dont want you to know about this because you would then be unhappy about it...An unhappy person does not buy the latest shiny bobble thing does he/she......
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"It was often pointed out during the election that Obama lacked management experience. While having a president with no experience is bad, it's not nearly as bad as having a president with experience as a community organizer."
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"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm."
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